Impact of obesity in intima media thickness of carotid arteries

Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1708-1715

  Kotsis, Vasilios T ^a,b,c   Stabouli, Stella V ^a   Papamichael, Christos M ^a   Zakopoulos, Nikos A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; BMI; Carotid artery intima media thickness; Fasting glucose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTIMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33846785340     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.196     Document Type: Article

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